Maleh Ratzon – Frankfurt am Main, 1710 – Signature of Rabbi Meir Yaakov Horowitz, Son of the Haflaa and Son-in-Law ...

Maleh Ratzon – Frankfurt am Main, 1710 – Signature of Rabbi Meir Yaakov Horowitz, Son of the Haflaa and Son-in-Law of R. Shaul Rabbi of Amsterdam
Maleh Ratzon, "to resolve all the difficulties in the Talmud", by R. Avraham Naftali Hirsch HaLevi Spitz Segal, rabbi of Worms and the region. Frankfurt am Main, [1710]. First edition. Approbation by R. Naftali Katz Rabbi of Frankfurt, author of Semichat Chachamim.
At the top of the title page, signature of R. Meir Yaakov Horowitz, son of the Haflaa: "G-d granted me this, Meir Yaakov son of R. Pinchas HaLevi Ish Horowitz". On same page, inscriptions of R. Hertz Wohl (presumably listed by Horowitz in Avnei Zikaron, Frankfurt am Main 1901, no. 3660, as prayer leader and beadle in Frankfurt, d. 1780) and of R. Itzek Fulda (presumably also from Frankfurt, see Avnei Zikaron no. 2494).
Inscription on the leaf following the title page, attesting to having received the book as wedding gift from R. Meir Yaakov.
Additional inscription on the following leaf, signed by Shmuel Sanvil.
R. Meir Yaakov Horowitz (1754-1780), son of the Haflaa and son-in-law of R. Shaul Rabbi of Amsterdam. He passed away at the young age of 26, in his father's lifetime. His father published a collection of his novellae at the end of his book Haflaa on Ketubot (leaves 75-86), introducing them with the following words: "My late son and disciple… who was summoned to the Heavenly yeshiva at the age of 26, and he was filled with Torah and fear of G-d, exceptional in his sharpness and erudition, and he asked me before his passing to publish some of his novellae…". Other novellae he authored were published at the end of the book Machaneh Levi by his brother, printed together with the book HaMikneh.
[2], 4; 97 [i.e. 99]; 40, 42-43, 45-114; 7, 9-10; 13, [1] leaves. Lacking leaves 41 and 44 of third sequence. Leaves 49-50 of second sequence bound out of order. 30 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, tears and wear. Worming to several leaves, affecting text. Binding damaged, lacking spine, and detached.